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ZHANG Qiang, WANG Zhihao, WANG Xueqian, et al. Cooperative detection of ships in optical and SAR remote sensing images based on neighborhood saliency[J]. Journal of Radars, 2024, 13(4): 885–903. doi: 10.12000/JR24037
Citation: ZHANG Qiang, WANG Zhihao, WANG Xueqian, et al. Cooperative detection of ships in optical and SAR remote sensing images based on neighborhood saliency[J]. Journal of Radars, 2024, 13(4): 885–903. doi: 10.12000/JR24037
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Cooperative Detection of Ships in Optical and SAR Remote Sensing Images Based on Neighborhood Saliency

DOI: 10.12000/JR24037
  • 1.

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  • 2.

    Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing, Beijing 100854, China

  • 3.

    Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Space Information Sensing and Transmission, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China

Funds:  The National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFA0715201), The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62101303, 62341130), Autonomous Research Program of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
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  • Corresponding author: WANG Xueqian, wangxueqian@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 2024-03-12
  • Rev Recd Date: 2024-05-11
    • Available Online: 2024-05-21
  • Publish Date: 2024-06-07
    Abstract
  • In ship detection through remote sensing images, optical images often provide rich details and texture information; however, the quality of such optical images can be affected by cloud and fog interferences. In contrast, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides all-weather and all-day imaging capabilities; however, SAR images are susceptible to interference from complex sea clutter. Cooperative ship detection combining the advantages of optical and SAR images can enhance the detection performance of ships. In this paper, by focusing on the slight shift of ships in a small neighborhood range in the prior and later temporal images, we propose a method for cooperative ship detection based on neighborhood saliency in multisource heterogeneous remote sensing images, including optical and SAR data. Initially, a sea-land segmentation algorithm of optical and SAR images is applied to reduce interference from land regions. Next, single-source ship detection from optical and SAR images is performed using the RetinaNet and YOLOv5s models, respectively. Then, we introduce a multisource cooperative ship target detection strategy based on the neighborhood window opening of single-source detection results in remote sensing images and secondary detection of neighborhood salient ships. This strategy further leverages the complementary advantages of both optical and SAR heterogeneous images, reducing the possibility of missing ship and false alarms to improve overall detection performance. The performance of the proposed method has been validated using optical and SAR remote sensing data measured from Yantai, China, in 2022. Compared with existing ship detection methods, our method improves detection accuracy AP50 by ≥1.9%, demonstrating its effectiveness and superiority.

     

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